BID WRITING AND SUPPORT

Refined Writing helps businesses to produce well-presented proposals, with a focus on consistency and clarity. From PQQ to Preferred Bidder, we can provide writing resource to supplement your in-house team.

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We tailor our approach to each client’s unique requirements. We work as an integrated part of your team and can join you at any stage of the tender process – either to write responses from scratch, or to edit existing text. We have experience of storyboarding, creating answer plans, developing writing guides and glossaries, researching and writing case studies, and in creating ‘boilerplate’ text for use in future bids.

Refined Writing works alongside your business development or bid teams to support the delivery of high-quality written submissions to potential clients. We are skilled in:

• Liaising with technical personnel to identify client requirements

• Editing the written input of other bid team members

• Writing original text based on interviews and research

• Creating writing guides and glossaries to assist section owners

• Advising team members on how to structure and format responses

• Reviewing previous submissions to carry forward best practice and ‘lessons learnt’

• Developing and maintaining information ‘libraries’ for use in future submissions

• Working flexibly, getting ‘up to speed’ quickly and meeting tight deadlines

• Coordinating all bid team activities, to ensure a seamless bid production process.

Refined Writing has helped both large and small businesses to write and format proposal documents. Clients and projects include:

• Amey: one of the UK’s leading integrated public service providers

  • Provided bid writing and bid coordination on projects for clients including Highways England, Ministry of Defence, MInistry of Justice, NHS, BAA, Transport for London and numerous local authorities. This work covered a diverse range of industries, from Facilities Management (FM) and waste management to street lighting, rail and highways maintenance.

• Ferrovial Agroman UK: 

  • Worked within the business development team, writing PQQ and ITT responses for major infrastructure projects in the construction, transport and energy sectors. Several of these projects involved Joint Venture (JV) arrangements, requiring liaison with staff from other companies within the JV.

• GE Transportation: global technology leader in rail, marine, drilling, wind and mining industries

  • Provided bid writing and formatting resource for a major Network Rail proposal, involving the use of new technology across the entire UK rail network.

• BAM Construct UK: construction, property development, design, services engineering, facilities management and plant hire services

  • Worked as part of the bid copywriting team on a range of projects, including several successful Building Schools for the Future tenders.

• Interserve: a world-leader in the provision of support services and construction

  • Provided bid writing support, helping operational specialists to formulate responses to tenders from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defence.

Our experience of bidding major projects means that we are able to integrate quickly into your bid team and help add value to your proposals. We are used to working on confidential projects and to strict timescales.